India is a place full of superstitions & inspite of modernization we still stick to the age old beliefs. It’s impious when you believe in India as growth engine to the world economy at one hand and at the other find people so grossly indulged in age old practices of spending money on deity’s. When u look at the contagion with which it has affected the people of India from rich to middle class to poor u can’t help itself giving it a thought.
There could be incidents when we all must have felt something of sort what I felt when I was travelling in train …For a particular time period which is like 60 to 70 seconds I see something really strange......Its the time when the train crosses over a river …
What’s so strange in that right??!! But when you see people of all kind from rich to poor,fatso's to slimmo's,aunties & uncles throwing coins in the river it does look strange..Its like "are they nuts"!!!
Each and every class of people do that, no matter whether they are highly educated or illiterate, its kind of mission for them. The moment train approaches a bridge over river the scene in the small compartment starts looking like of a circus with everyone having hands full of coins eagerly looking out of the window with a childish excitement, some smarter lot get ready in advance with a coin in the hand and others rush to find the lowest denomination coin from their pockets or wallets. Aiming between the pillars of the bridge they throw the coin down in river and fold their hands to get the blessings to fulfill their wishes.
Is this way to wish something??Throwing coins in the river never makes sense to me…
It’s good to worship river as a God/Goddess if you believe in it, but money can’t buy god. It’s like you are paying your parents to take care of you and if it's about culture that’s not the only way to make a wish. Just folding hands with belief in thee is more apt than throwing coins, after all a river doesn't need money as a payback to whatever good it does for mankind.
What if coins were buoyant? If it would have been so imagine all the rivers covered up with a silver coat!!! Well, it reminds me the crow and water story…the story had a good ending, but if it happens here?? the bad ending of this story is not so far...!It may be blasphemous of me for whoever believes in throwing coins but if you are such a believer and do-gooder then save the coins in your pockets for the needy beggar on the next station. It may buy him a meal and get you the most precious & honest emotion exhibited by a human-the blessings.
agreed, india is full of superstitious creatures :)still, of all superstition, u find 'this' to write about :P
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